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CLOTH SEAL
Unique ID: BH-2F58E9
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Part of a post-Medieval lead-alloy cloth seal.
The surviving sub-circular disc bears the relief-stamped legend 'WOR/STED/REFOR/M(E)D', with a beaded circumferential border. The weave of the cloth has become impressed on the underside of the disc.
Diameter: 19.9mm; thickness: 1.6mm. Weight: 3.56g.
According to Geoff Egan, "'Worsted reformed' seals are among the most common and widely found of all kinds (of cloth seal)..., attesting to a large national and international market for the late seventeenth-century Norfolk worsteds they represent" (Egan 1995: 48).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1650
Date to: Exactly AD 1705
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.6 mm
Weight: 3.56 g
Diameter: 19.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 4th January 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 15/45 - 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hertfordshire (County)
District: North Hertfordshire (District)
To be known as: Newnham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. | 1994 | Lead cloth seals and related items in the British Museum | London | Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum |
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